I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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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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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I am worn to a raveling.
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