It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
BEATRIX POTTERMrs. 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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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 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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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