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.
BEATRIX POTTERThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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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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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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