Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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