What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERI remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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