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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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”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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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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