Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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