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.
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More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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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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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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