I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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