We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERHere comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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 cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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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