The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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