Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERFor quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Mrs. 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.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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