I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTER
It 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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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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