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 POTTERThe place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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