Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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 prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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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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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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