With opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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