What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTERI think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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