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.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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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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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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