The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIEFor 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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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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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