I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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