I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
JAMES M. BARRIE”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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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 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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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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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