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 POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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