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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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