It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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