Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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