I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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For when you looked into my mother’s eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world – it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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