If I were younger, I’d know more.
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling 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.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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