I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERThe place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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