Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
BEATRIX POTTERSo much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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