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.
JAMES M. BARRIEFacts 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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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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