When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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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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 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 am worn to a raveling.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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