Beatrix Potter Quotes
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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 think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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. 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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. 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. Everything was romantic in my imagination. 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 am worn to a raveling.
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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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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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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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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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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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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 fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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