There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
JAMES M. BARRIEDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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