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.
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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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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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