I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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