I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERThe place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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