Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling 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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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