I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERDon’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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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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