I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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