I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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 was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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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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