Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.
asleep to rummage in their minds
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.
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