Beatrix Potter Quotes - Page 2

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• In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

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  Gentleman, Gold, Ruffles

  Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

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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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  Cat, Dust, Names

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales”, VM eBooks

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• I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

  Beatrix Potter

  Thinking, Shoes, House

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter: 22 Children’s Books with 650+ Original Illustrations in One Volume: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers and many more”, p.595, e-artnow

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• I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

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  Thinking, Prejudice, Three

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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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  Rabbits, Savages, Tails

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit: Beatrix's Tales”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

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  Lost Ones, Shoes, Cabbage

  Beatrix Potter (2012). “Peter Rabbit and Eleven Other Favorite Tales”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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  Homeschooling, Goodness, Neglected

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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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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  Mother, Taken, Tea

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• I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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  Pudding, Obliged

  Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.384, Delphi Classics

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• 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 sideways at one another. 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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  Fire, Hands, Tea

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “Collection of Beatrix Potter: Beatrix's Tales”, p.37, VM eBooks

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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. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

  Beatrix Potter

  Country, Brother, Children

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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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  Country, Children, Alive

  Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

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