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Beatrix Potter, née à Kensington, Londres le 28 juillet 1866 et morte à Sawrey, en Cumbria, le 22 décembre 1943, est une naturaliste et écrivaine anglaise. Elle est principalement connue pour ses livres destinés à la jeunesse.

✵ 28. juillet 1866 – 22. décembre 1943  •  Autres noms بیترکس پاتر, Беатрис Поттер
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Beatrix Potter: Citations en anglais

“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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“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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“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.”

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Beatrix Potter livre The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

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

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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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“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…”

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Journal entry (1896-11-17), from the National Trust collection.
Source: The Complete Tales

“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.”

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Source: Merry Christmas, Peter Rabbit!

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

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“It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.”

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Beatrix Potter livre The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies

Source: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909)

“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.”

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Beatrix Potter livre The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Source: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

“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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Beatrix Potter livre The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

“This is a Tale about a tail — a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.”

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Beatrix Potter livre The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)

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