If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
ENID BLYTONRemorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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 don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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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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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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There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
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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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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
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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 think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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