What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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 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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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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