For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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 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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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