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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
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!
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.
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.
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.