I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERIt 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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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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 I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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