I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 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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