When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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 an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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