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.
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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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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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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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