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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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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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