I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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 is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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 shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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