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James M Barrie Inspirational Quotes (140)

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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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One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.
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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
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All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
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This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.
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Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
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The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.
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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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I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
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If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
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She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
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In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
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They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things?
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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