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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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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