I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
BEATRIX POTTERMrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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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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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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