Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
ENID BLYTONMothers 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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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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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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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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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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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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Never lose that honesty, Bobby – always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly – and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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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,
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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.
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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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