Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERI do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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One 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.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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