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.
BEATRIX POTTERA 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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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