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Those Who Are Prepared To Die Are Most Prepared To Live.
-James M. Barrie
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Those Who Are Prepared

James M. Barrie
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Those Who Are Prepared To Die Are Most Prepared To Live.

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Life
Death
Feeling That Peter Was On His Way Back, The Neverland Had Again Woke Into Life. We Ought To Use The Pluperfect And Say Wakened, But Woke Is Better And Was Always Used By Peter.
Feelings
Use
Way
Again Came That Ringing Crow, And Peter Dropped In Front Of Them. "greeting, Boys," He Cried, And Mechanically They Saluted, And Then Again Was Silence. He Frowned. "i Am Back," He Said Hotly, "why Do You Not Cheer?
Cheer
Boys
Silence
The Gates Of Heaven Are So Easily Found When We Are Little, And They Are Always Standing Open To Let Children Wander In.
Children
Heaven
Littles
Tink Was Not All Bad: Or, Rather, She Was All Bad Just Now, But, On The Other Hand, Sometimes She Was All Good. Fairies Have To Be One Thing Or The Other, Because Being So Small They Unfortunately Have Room For One Feeling Only At A Time. They Are, However, Allowed To Change, Only It Must Be A Complete Change.
Hands
Feelings
Rooms
Fairies Don’t Live Long, But They Are So Little That A Short Time Seems A Good While To Them
Long
Littles
Fairy
Second Star To The Right And Straight On 'til Morning.
Country
Morning
Stars
It Is Very Well To Be Able To Write A Book, But Can You Waggle Your Ears?
Book
Writing
Ears
Forget Them, Wendy. Forget Them All. Come With Me Where You'll Never, Never Have To Worry About Grown Up Things Again.
Long
Worry
Forget
Temper Is A Weapon That We Hold By The Blade.
Weapons
Blades
Temper
Stars Are Beautiful, But They May Not Take Part In Anything, They Must Just Look On Forever.
Beautiful
Stars
Forever
What A Polite Game Tennis Is. The Chief Word In It Seems To Be "sorry" And Admiration Of Each Other's Play Crosses The Net As Frequently As The Ball.
Sorry
Games
Play
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.
Hands
Sigh Of Relief
Promise
If You Cannot Teach Me To Fly, Teach Me To Sing.
Music
Teach
Ifs
It Was Dreadful The Way All The Three Were Looking At Him, Just As If They Did Not Admire Him.
Three
Way
Admire
Next Moment He Was Standing Erect On The Rock Again, With That Smile On His Face And A Drum Beating Within Him. It Was Saying, "to Die Will Be An Awfully Big Adventure.
Adventure
Rocks
Next
We Should Be Slower To Think That The Man At His Worst Is The Real Man, And Certain That The Better We Are Ourselves The Less Likely Is He To Be At His Worst In Our Company. Every Time He Talks Away His Own Character Before Us He Is Signifying Contempt For Ours.
Real
Character
Humility
Always Try To Be A Litle Kinder Than Necessary.
Trying
Kinder
Forget Not Your Past, For In The Future It May Help You Grow
Past
May
Helping
They Knew In What They Called Their Hearts That One Can Get On Quite Well Without A Mother, And That It Is Only The Mothers Who Think You Can't.
Mother
Heart
Thinking
I Do Believe In Fairies, I Do, I Do.
Believe
Fairy
When The First Baby Laughed For The First Time, The Laugh Broke Into A Thousand Pieces And They All Went Skipping About, And That Was The Beginning Of Fairies.
Birthday
Baby
Laughter
Boy, Why Are You Crying?
Boys
Cry
God Gave Us Memory So That We Might Have Roses In December.
Nature
Memories
Rose
But The Years Came And Went Without Bringing The Careless Boy; And When They Met Again Wendy Was A Married Woman, And Peter Was No More To Her Than A Little Dust In The Box In Which She Had Kept Her Toys.
Boys
Dust
Years
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.
Love
Beautiful
Wall
It Is Frightfully Difficult To Know Much About The Fairies, And Almost The Only Thing For Certain Is That There Are Fairies Wherever There Are Children.
Children
Tinkerbell
Fairy
Take Care, Lest An Adventure Is Now Offered You, Which, If Accepted, Will Plunge You In Deepest Woe.
Adventure
Care
Woe
Let No One Who Loves Be Unhappy, Even Love Unreturned Has Its Rainbow.
Love
Happiness
Broken Heart
The Praise That Comes From Love Does Not Make Us Vain, But More Humble.
Love
Humble
Doe
Has It Ever Struck You That Trout Bite Best On The Sabbath? God's Critters Tempting Decent Men.
Men
Rivers
Lakes
All Of This Has Happened Before, And It Will All Happen Again.
Neverland
Happened
Happens
Life Is A Long Lesson In Humility.
Life
Humility
Long
The Elizabethan Age Might Be Better Named The Beginning Of The Smoking Era.
Smoking
Age
Might
Most Disquieting Reflection Of All, Was It Not Bad Form To Think About Good Form?
Reflection
Thinking
Form
Love, It Is Said, Is Blind, But Love Is Not Blind. It Is An Extra Eye, Which Shows Us What Is Most Worthy Of Regard. To See The Best Is To See Most Clearly, And It Is The Lover's Privilege.
Love
Eye
Privilege
All Great Writers Begin With A Good Leather Binding And A Respectable Title.
Titles
Neverland
Leather
Some Of My Plays Peter Out And Some Pan Out.
Play
Peter
Dreams Do Come True, If We Only Wish Hard Enough.
Inspirational
Dream
Sacrifice
Pan, Who And What Art Thou?" He Cried Huskily. "i'm Youth, I'm Joy," Peter Answered At A Venture, "i'm A Little Bird That Has Broken Out Of The Egg.
Art
Eggs
Broken
I Am Not Young Enough To Know Everything.
Book
Athlete
Knowledge
A Woman Can Be Anything The Man Who Loves Her Would Have Her Be.
Women
Men
Asleep To Rummage In Their Minds
Mind
Men's Second Childhood Begins When A Woman Gets A Hold Of Him.
Men
Childhood
Ambition It Is The Last Infirmity Of Noble Minds.
Work
Ambition
Mind
His Lordship May Compel Us To Be Equal Upstairs, But There Will Never Be Equality In The Servants' Hall.
Equality
May
Upstairs
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.
Children
Boys
Men
Two Is The Beginning Of The End.
Two
Ends
Just Always Be Waiting For Me.
Waiting
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.
Sleep
Home
Men
Your Heart Is As Fresh As Your Face; And That Is Well. The Useless Men Are Those Who Never Change With The Years. Many Views That I Held To In My Youth And Long Afterwards Are A Pain To Me Now, And I Am Carrying Away From Thrums Memories Of Errors Into Which I Fell At Every Stage Of My Ministry. When You Are Older You Will Know That Life Is A Long Lesson In Humility.
Pain
Memories
Humility
For Long The Two Enemies Looked At One Another, Hook Shuddering Slightly, And Peter With The Strange Smile Upon His Face. "so, Pan," Said Hook At Last, "this Is All Your Doing." "ay, James Hook," Came The Stern Answer, "it Is All My Doing." "proud And Insolent Youth," Said Hook, "prepare To Meet Thy Doom." "dark And Sinister Man,“for Long The Two Enemies Looked At One Another, Hook Shuddering Slightly, And Peter With The Strange Smile Upon His Face. "dark And Sinister Man," Peter Answered, "have At Thee.
Dark
Men
Two
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