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. BARRIEThose who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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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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”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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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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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