So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERIn 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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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