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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThe Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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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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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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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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