Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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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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 cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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