…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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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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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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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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