Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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