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.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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