I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTER
Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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 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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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The 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.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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