I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
ENID BLYTONI 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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You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,’ said Bessie. ‘Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too – and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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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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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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Make up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,
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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 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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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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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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There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
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