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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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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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