Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
ENID BLYTONIf you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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.
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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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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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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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A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.
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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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The children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
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I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it’s feeble to change your mind once it’s made up. That’s a wrong idea, you know.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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