Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERThe 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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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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