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. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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