Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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