Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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 was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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