I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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