…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEI sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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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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