The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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