The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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 prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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