Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERMrs. 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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 goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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