Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 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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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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