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.
BEATRIX POTTEROne 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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