What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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