I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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 goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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