Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERThank 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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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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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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