What We Call The Highest And The

Thank Goodness I Was Never Sent To School; It Would Have Rubbed Off Some Of The Originality.

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.

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.

It Sometimes Happens That The Town Child Is More Alive To The Fresh Beauty Of The Country Than A Child Who Is Country Born. My Brother And I Were Born In London...but Our Descent, Our Interest And Our Joy Were In The North Country'. Quoted In The Tale Of Beatrix Potter A Biography By Margaret Lane, First Edition P 32-33