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 BLYTONThey lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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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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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?
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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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