The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
ENID BLYTONHere Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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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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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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A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.
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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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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.
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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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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,
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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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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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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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