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

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Beatrix Potter
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: July 28
Died: 1943
Died: December 22
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Botanist
Illustrator
Mycologist
Novelist
Painter
Scientific Illustrator
Writer
Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis
Helen Beatrix Potter
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Never
Please
Grew
Stories

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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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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 goodness my education was neglected.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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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.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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