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.
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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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 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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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