Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERThen 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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