We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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 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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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