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.
JAMES M. BARRIEChildren 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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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