I am worn to a raveling.
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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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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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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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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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