Thank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERI do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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