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.
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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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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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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.
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