Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERThen 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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