I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTERI think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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