There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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 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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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