I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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