Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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