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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.

Enid Blyton

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,
ENID BLYTON

Change Feeble Happen Make Mind Something Up Wrong
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.
ENID BLYTON

Change Fable Idea Mean People
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!
ENID BLYTON

All Book Children Day Hundred Letters Over Parent World Writing
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.
ENID BLYTON

Book Children Claim Know More Play Probably Writer Written
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.
ENID BLYTON

Children Except Girl Grow Men Hope Like Remember Think Women
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.
ENID BLYTON

Beautiful Blue Bread Butter Cloud Cornflower Egg Happily Lake Munching
Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
ENID BLYTON

Better Laugh Lead Something Tread
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.
ENID BLYTON

Beautiful Dark Lake Little Lonely Running See Water
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?
ENID BLYTON

Differences Giving Job Less Minute More Paid
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
ENID BLYTON

Funny Leave Something Senior Someone
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
ENID BLYTON

Bear Kindness Punishment Remorse Terrible Thing Wish
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
ENID BLYTON

Clear Enough Great Honesty Judge Nature Real Strong
As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off,
ENID BLYTON

Call Drew Edge Moorhen Near Off Over Sculpted Shapr Tree Water
To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.
ENID BLYTON

Back Instead Kindness Lok Someone Terrible Thing Undone Unkindness Wish
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.
ENID BLYTON

Beautiful Bed Heathery Lay Listen Night Song
I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
ENID BLYTON

Explore Kind Know Roof

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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