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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

James M. Barrie

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
JAMES M. BARRIE

Farewell Goodbye Let
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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Boy Careless Dust Year
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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Silly Sleep Stars
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Learn School Solemn
…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Children Gay Long
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Happiness Inspirational Life
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Lake Men River
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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Acquisition relief Science
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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Feeling Pluperfect Use Way
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Morning Neverland Person
…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Examination King Paper
‎”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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Broken Girl Heart Smile
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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Beautiful Eye Mother
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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Dream Happiness Life
Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Absence Forgetful Heart
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Sarcastic Seem Woman

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

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