It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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