I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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