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 BLYTONYou are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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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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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 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.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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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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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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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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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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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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