Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERWhen gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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