Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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