It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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