My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
ENID BLYTONRemorse 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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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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 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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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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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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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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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 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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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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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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