In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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