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.
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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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, 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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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