She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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