For when you looked into my mother’s eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world – it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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