Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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