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.
JAMES M. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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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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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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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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