Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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 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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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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