So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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.
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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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