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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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