…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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”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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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