So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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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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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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