I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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