I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERWhen gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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