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Boy, why are you crying?

James M. Barrie

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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Silly Sleep Stars
…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
If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Age Wisdom
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
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
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 Careless Dust Year
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
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Morning Neverland Person
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Farewell Goodbye Let
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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Dream Happiness Life
I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Animal Dog Mistake
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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Acquisition relief Science
Boy, why are you crying?
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Behaviour Boy Cry
There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Breathe Die Neverland
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
The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Age might Smoke

Boy, why are you crying?

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