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"'Look, Amelia, we saved you a bun,' said the teddy bear, holding one out to her. 'We are sorry you were upset, but you shouldn't make yourself such a nuisance!'

'Thank you for the bun,' said Amelia, in a small voice, and she ate it, though it was rather squashed, because the bear had sat on it by mistake."

- Enid Blyton, Amelia Jane Again. The height of literary wit when I was a tiny tot. (Admittedly, I still think this is hilarious.)

Also contains a crucial point of ethics: "Now Amelia was naughty but she wasn't bad". (She helps rescue toys who've fallen in the river.)