There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
JAMES M. BARRIEThe Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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