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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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“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
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“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
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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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“Tuesday, November 17th. 1896
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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.”
― The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897
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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.”
― The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897
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