I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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