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. BARRIEBut 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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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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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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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