The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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