For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
BEATRIX POTTERThen 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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 hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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