It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTERThis is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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