We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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