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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.

Beatrix Potter

Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
BEATRIX POTTER

Accident Country Father Garden People Person Pie
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Bed Eye Fell Flower God Land Lying Rough See Step Thank Walk
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTER

Adventure Home Live Stay World
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTER

Balance Common Heaven Knowledge Real Sense Spirit Te Tempered World
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTER

Crowns Happy Marriage Old Fashioned
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
BEATRIX POTTER

Eating Effort Lettuce Much Said Soporific Too
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTER

Country Garden Little Name Once Rabbit Time Upon
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTER

Behave Belief Good Great Mind never Power Rest Silently Yourself
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Appear Day Master One Own Place Plate Punctually
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Box Century Flower Garden Hedge Last Mysterious Overgrown People Rose Wood
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTER

House Little Live Shoes Thinking
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTER

Descendant Generations Influence Market Personality Strongly
Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
BEATRIX POTTER

Brown Cap Cup Gown Hold Like Near Soap Stick Tea Wrong
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTER

Childhood Heaven More Real Spirit World
Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
BEATRIX POTTER

Bed Chamomile Country During Evening Made Mother Some Spoon Table Taken Tea
The shorter and the plainer the better.
BEATRIX POTTER

Language Writing Written Language

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