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.
JAMES M. BARRIEHas it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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I 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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