For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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