I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERThe 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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