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Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Country Garden Little Name Once Rabbit Time Upon
Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Bunnies Bunny Come Country Down Easter People Person Peter Right Trail
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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Bad Desire Ever Over Poor Rest Stronger Time
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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Alive Beauty Born Brother Child Children Country Fresh Happen More Sometimes Town
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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Bed Eye Fell Flower God Land Lying Rough See Step Thank Walk
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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Brown Cap Cup Gown Hold Like Near Soap Stick Tea Wrong
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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Children Create Hand Imagination Nourishment Observant Quiet Solitary
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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Accident Country Father Garden People Person Pie
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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Behavem Table Cat Dinner Favorite Habit Plate Scrap Taight
The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Language Writing Written Language
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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Adventure Home Live Stay World
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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Bed Chamomile Country During Evening Made Mother Some Spoon Table Taken Tea
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Amongst Cabbage Lost Potato Shoe
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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Delicious First Something Stories Story Word Writing
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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Cat Doorstep Dust Kitten Name Once Time Upon
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Childhood Heaven More Real Spirit World

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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