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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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 was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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