Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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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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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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