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 POTTERWe cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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 I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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