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.
JAMES M. BARRIEFacts 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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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