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 BLYTONHatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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 think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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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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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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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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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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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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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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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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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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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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