I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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 if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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