In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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 is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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