I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERWe cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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.
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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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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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