The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever.
ENID BLYTONSoon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
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Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
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I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.
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Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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When you’re paid to do a job, it’s better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That’s one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?
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I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them – but let’s hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we’re men and women.
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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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