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.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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