Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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