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.
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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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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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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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