Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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