I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERPeter 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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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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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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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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 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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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