We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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