When you’re paid to do a job, it’s better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That’s one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?
ENID BLYTONThe best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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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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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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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 don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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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 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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