I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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