I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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 place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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