Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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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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