Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
JAMES M. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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