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. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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