”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
JAMES M. BARRIE…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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