Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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