In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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