Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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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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