…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEHow shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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 sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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