I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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