Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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