Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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