You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
ENID BLYTONWe must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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.
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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 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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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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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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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