We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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