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.
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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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