I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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