So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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