How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling 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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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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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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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