Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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”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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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