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 BLYTONThere 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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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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They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.
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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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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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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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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 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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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.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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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’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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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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