I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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