So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERI do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I am worn to a raveling.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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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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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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