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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

Beatrix Potter

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTER

Book Finishing Hate Year Yera
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Appear Day Master One Own Place Plate Punctually
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTER

Childhood Heaven More Real Spirit World
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Brown Cap Cup Gown Hold Like Near Soap Stick Tea Wrong
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTER

Adventure Home Live Stay World
Everything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTER

Everything Imagination Romantic
Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
BEATRIX POTTER

Accident Country Father Garden People Person Pie
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Beautiful Both Divine Equally Highest Lowest Nature Perfect
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTER

Crowns Happy Marriage Old Fashioned
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Cat Doorstep Dust Kitten Name Once Time Upon
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTER

Descendant Generations Influence Market Personality Strongly
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTER

Coat Full Gentleman Gold Lappet Ruffle Skirt Sword Time
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Behavem Table Cat Dinner Favorite Habit Plate Scrap Taight
When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTER

Country Face Gentlemen Gold Live Ruffle Tailor Waistcoat
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Bed Eye Fell Flower God Land Lying Rough See Step Thank Walk
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Box Century Flower Garden Hedge Last Mysterious Overgrown People Rose Wood

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