Beatrix Potter Quotes

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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…
• Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail....
• The shorter and the plainer the better.
• Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked…
• I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
• What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
• With opportunity the world is very interesting.
• For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
• I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
• 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.
• I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
• So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
• It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
• Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things…
• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
• 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…
• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
• This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
• Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

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