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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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