In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTERFor 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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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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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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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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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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