Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
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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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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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.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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