Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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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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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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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