If I were younger, I’d know more.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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 don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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