…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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