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.
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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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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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