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01Undated

She says she glories in being abandoned

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02Undated

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

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03Undated

‎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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04Undated

POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.

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05Undated

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

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06Undated

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

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07Undated

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents...

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08Undated

A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey.

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09Undated

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

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10Undated

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

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11Undated

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

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12Undated

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

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13Undated

If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.

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14Undated

All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.

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15Undated

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.He frowned."I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

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16Undated

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

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17Undated

But where do you live mostly now?"With the lost boys."Who are they?"They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."What fun it must be!"Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."Are none of the others girls?"Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

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18Undated

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

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19Undated

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night

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20Undated

It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

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21Undated

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

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22Undated

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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23Undated

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.

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24Undated

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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