I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERThis is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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I 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.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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