I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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Once 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.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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