What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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