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.
ENID BLYTONLaugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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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 wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it’s feeble to change your mind once it’s made up. That’s a wrong idea, you know.
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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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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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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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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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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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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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