Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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