In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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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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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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