When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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