So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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