The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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 shorter and the plainer the better.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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