I am worn to a raveling.
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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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