Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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