The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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