…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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”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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