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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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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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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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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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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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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