This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
BEATRIX POTTERMrs. 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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