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I am undone and worn to a thread-paper, for I have no more twist.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Thank goodness, my education was neglected and the originality was not rubbed off.
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Then there was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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This is a Tale about a tail — a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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I have felt very tired and aged the last two years. Maybe the surgeon will put me right — but he cannot put me young again.
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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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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.
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The water was all slippy-sloppy in the larder and the back passage. But Mr. Jeremy liked getting his feet wet; nobody ever scolded him, and he never caught a cold.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the cause of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
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Born:
July 28, 1866
Died:
December 22, 1943
(aged 77)
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