I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTEROnce 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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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