I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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