Everything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTERA 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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