Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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 is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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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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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.
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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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