With opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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