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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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.
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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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.
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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