This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
BEATRIX POTTERI think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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One 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.
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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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