Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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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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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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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