The shorter and the plainer the better.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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