When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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