What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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