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.
BEATRIX POTTERHere comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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