Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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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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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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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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