There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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