I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERPeter 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.
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
BEATRIX POTTERSo much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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.
BEATRIX POTTERWe cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERHere comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
BEATRIX POTTEROne 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.
BEATRIX POTTERI do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERMost people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
BEATRIX POTTERFor 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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