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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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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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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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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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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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