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.
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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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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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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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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