What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERWhat heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERAll outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERI fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTERDon’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce 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.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERThe woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
BEATRIX POTTERI think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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