The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIEFacts 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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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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