Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIEA woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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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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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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”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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Boy, why are you crying?
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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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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