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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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