There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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