Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
BEATRIX POTTERWe cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERI do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTERMost people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
BEATRIX POTTEROne 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.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERThe shorter and the plainer the better.
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