Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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 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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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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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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