Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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I 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.
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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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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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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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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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