Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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 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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