I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
BEATRIX POTTEROne 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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