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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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