Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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