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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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