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Boy, why are you crying?

James M. Barrie

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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Beautiful Eye Mother
If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Age Wisdom
I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Animal Dog Mistake
Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Break Caring China Plate
There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Breathe Die Neverland
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Morning Neverland Person
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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Adventure Children Father
Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Absence Forgetful Heart
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Lake Men River
Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Always Kinder Necessary Try
How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Class Morning Pull Upper
I am not young enough to know everything.
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Athlete Book Knowledge
…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Examination King Paper
…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Children Gay Long
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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Feeling Pluperfect Use Way
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Learn School Solemn

Boy, why are you crying?

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