Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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 that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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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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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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