Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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”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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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