Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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