I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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