Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
ENID BLYTONI 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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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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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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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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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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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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Never lose that honesty, Bobby – always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly – and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
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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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I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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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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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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Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,’ said Bessie. ‘Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too – and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
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