What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTERI think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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 an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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