So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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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 goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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