There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
JAMES M. BARRIEBoy, why are you crying?
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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”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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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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