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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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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