I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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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 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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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 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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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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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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