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.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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 goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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