Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERThe 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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 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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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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