What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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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