What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERI think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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