Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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