"The last thing he ever said to me was, "Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing."

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“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”

“I just want always to be a little boy and have fun.”

“Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.”

“Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!”

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

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