I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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