What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.
Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
Boy, why are you crying?
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.
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.
I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
All children, except one, grow up.
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.
Because you see 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. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
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