Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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