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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!

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
Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
ENID BLYTON

Better Laugh Lead Something Tread
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
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
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
ENID BLYTON

Laugh Obstacle Stone Treat Use
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!
ENID BLYTON

Believe Fashion Friend Funny Old Tree
Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
ENID BLYTON

Art Children Interesting Most One Writing
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
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.
ENID BLYTON

Delight Island Little Animal Live Nothing Own Pray Secret Very
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
ENID BLYTON

Funny Leave Something Senior Someone
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
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.
ENID BLYTON

Another Answer Bad Beautiful Crush Delicious Overhead Smell Song Thyme
You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
ENID BLYTON

Difficulty Escape Face Fought never Trying
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
ENID BLYTON

Attractive Children Christian Ethic Good Make Must Our Strong
All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
ENID BLYTON

All Almost Children Gaze Look Loving Magic Secret Stood
I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
ENID BLYTON

Anything Believe Brownies Fashion Frame Friend Funny Land Old

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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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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