Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
ENID BLYTONWell, 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!
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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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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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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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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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful.
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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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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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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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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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