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. BARRIEHas it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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…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 are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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