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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

I am worn to a raveling.

I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

But not even Hitler can damage the fells'
In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170.

WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.

This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

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.

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

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.

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail ...

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

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.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.