So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERSo 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.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERI think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERI do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTERA 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.
BEATRIX POTTERDon’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
BEATRIX POTTERThis is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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