I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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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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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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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 place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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