There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
JAMES M. BARRIEI sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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 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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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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