Everything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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