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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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 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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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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