Never is an awfully long time.
("Peter Pan")
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Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
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All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.
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Death is but the next great adventure
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All children, except one, grow up.
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