I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERWhen gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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 am worn to a raveling.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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