Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Peter 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.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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