Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
JAMES M. BARRIEBoy, why are you crying?
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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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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