How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
JAMES M. BARRIEHow shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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