Life is a long lesson in humility.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

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