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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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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