What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
BEATRIX POTTERDon’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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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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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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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 shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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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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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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