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.
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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