I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEFacts 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.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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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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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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