”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. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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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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Dreams 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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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