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.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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