”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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 are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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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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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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