All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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