Beatrix Potter

Author

1866-07-28 – 1943-12-22

Beatrix Potter was an English author and illustrator best known for The Tale of Peter Rabbit and related children's books. She was also a naturalist and conservationist who preserved significant land in England's Lake District.

Quotes by Beatrix Potter

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
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In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush], and the flowers they call ceninen [daffodils]. And leeks and cabbages also grew in that garden; and between long straight alleys, and apple-trained espaliers, there were beds of strawberries, and mint, and sage.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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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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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 my education was neglected.
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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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In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush], and the flowers they call ceninen [daffodils]. And leeks and cabbages also grew in that garden; and between long straight alleys, and apple-trained espaliers, there were beds of strawberries, and mint, and sage.
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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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If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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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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