For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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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?
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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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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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