I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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