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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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