I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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