When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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