All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
("Peter Pan")
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Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly . All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest.
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Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.
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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
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In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
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