Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERMost people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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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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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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