Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
ENID BLYTONLeave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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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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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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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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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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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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