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.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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