Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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 was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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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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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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