What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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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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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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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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