Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers.
ENID BLYTON
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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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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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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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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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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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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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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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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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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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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