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. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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”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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