For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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 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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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