So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERWhen gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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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 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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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