If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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 sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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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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…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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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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