Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
ENID BLYTONThe best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers.
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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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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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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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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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I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.
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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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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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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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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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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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You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
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