…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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 a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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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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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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