I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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