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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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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