Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
JAMES M. BARRIEDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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