The shorter and the plainer the better.
BEATRIX POTTERThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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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