I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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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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Then 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.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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