Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTERHere comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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