I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTERSo much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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