I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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Thank 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.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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