I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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