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.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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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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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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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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