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 POTTEROnce upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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