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.
ENID BLYTONLeave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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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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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.
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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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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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