There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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 my education was neglected.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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