There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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 my education was neglected.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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 shorter and the plainer the better.
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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 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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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