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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More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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