When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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