I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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