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.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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 shorter and the plainer the better.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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 cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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