I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERThe shorter and the plainer the better.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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 have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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