I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
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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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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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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