Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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