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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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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 is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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