Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERThe shorter and the plainer the better.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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