I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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