Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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