Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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The 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.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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