I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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