…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEHow shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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”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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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