…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEWendy, 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 asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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”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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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