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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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