It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
Enid BlytonStichwörter: children grown-ups adults
I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
Enid BlytonStichwörter: exploring rooftops roofs
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. 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, 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.
Enid BlytonStichwörter: ideas wrong pluck changing strenght changing-your-mind feeble
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.
Stichwörter: time holidays summer days gallop summer-holidays
Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. 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.
Stichwörter: food nature eating outdoors meals eggs evening picnics indoors
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. 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.
Enid BlytonStichwörter: kindness remorse punishments undone unkindness looking-back undo-past-mistakes
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.
Enid BlytonStichwörter: sadness clowns acting faces appearances photographs
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
Enid BlytonYou are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. 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!
Enid BlytonStichwörter: honesty decisions judgement character motives firm muddled
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 BlytonStichwörter: bad-people recognize good-people
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