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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

Beatrix Potter

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
BEATRIX POTTER

Almost Believe Cause Endless Inspirational Life Outward Religion Strife
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTER

Fear Leave Obliged Pudding
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTER

Crowns Happy Marriage Old Fashioned
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Behavem Table Cat Dinner Favorite Habit Plate Scrap Taight
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Brown Cap Cup Gown Hold Like Near Soap Stick Tea Wrong
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTER

Coat Full Gentleman Gold Lappet Ruffle Skirt Sword Time
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTER

Grew Made Myself Please Stories Up
When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTER

Country Face Gentlemen Gold Live Ruffle Tailor Waistcoat
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Bed Eye Fell Flower God Land Lying Rough See Step Thank Walk
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
BEATRIX POTTER

Children Create Hand Imagination Nourishment Observant Quiet Solitary
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
BEATRIX POTTER

Eating Effort Lettuce Much Said Soporific Too
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
BEATRIX POTTER

Claw Fierce Rabbit Savage Savages Tail Turn Up
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTER

House Little Live Shoes Thinking
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Child Idea Myself Sea Trust Water
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Box Century Flower Garden Hedge Last Mysterious Overgrown People Rose Wood
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTER

Book Finishing Hate Year Yera

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

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