I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTER
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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 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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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