I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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