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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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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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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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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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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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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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