I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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