Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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