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.
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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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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