Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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