With opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTERThank 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.
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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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