Everything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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 shorter and the plainer the better.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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