…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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