Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERThe place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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