Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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 an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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