Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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 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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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