With opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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