In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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