Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
BEATRIX POTTERI think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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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 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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