Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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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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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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