This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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