It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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