Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERIt 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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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