It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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