Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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