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.
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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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