There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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