Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
BEATRIX POTTER
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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 an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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