With opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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 hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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