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.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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 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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