I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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