It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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