What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTERI remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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 am worn to a raveling.
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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 was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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