I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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”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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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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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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