Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
BEATRIX POTTERThe woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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