Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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