I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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 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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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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