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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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