For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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