How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
JAMES M. BARRIEThose who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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