I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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