Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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