The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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