I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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 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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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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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