”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
JAMES M. BARRIEChildren 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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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