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Beatrix Potter Biography

Helen Beatrix Potter (British English /ˈbiːətrɪks/, North American English also /ˈbiːtrɪks/, 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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With opportunity the world is very interesting.

Interesting, Opportunity, World

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

Eating, Effect, Lettuce, Said, Soporific, Too Much

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

Children, Create, Hands, Imagination, Material, Observant

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

Firsts, Know, Stories, Words, Writing

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

Book, Finishing, Hate, Like, Years

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

Accident, Father, Garden, Mcgregor, Pie

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

Cabbage, Lost Ones, Peter, Shoe, Shoes

I am worn to a raveling.

Raveling, Worn

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Alive, Beauty, Children, Country, Town

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

Crowns, Happy, Happy Marriage, Hold, Old Fashioned, Womans

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

Bunnies, Cottontail, Easter, Peter, Trail

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.

Gentleman, Gloucester, Gold, Ruffles, Taffeta, Time

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

Education, Goodness, Learning, Memorable, Originality, Thank

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.

Cat, Dust, Mitten, Names, Played, Tom

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.

Believe, Inspirational, Life, Rest, Silently, Useless

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. 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. 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.

1884, Cat, Dinner, Placed, Sunday, Two

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

Fear, Leave, Obliged, Pudding

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

Adventure, Home, Lives, Looks, Present, World

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.

Come, Desire, Poor, Result, Stronger

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

Cringingly, Failure, Inspirational, People, Subsequent

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