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.
BEATRIX POTTERThank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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