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.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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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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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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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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