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.
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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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