I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERFor quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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