Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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 goodness my education was neglected.
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