It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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 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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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