There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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