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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. (J. M. Barrie)
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. View quote
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It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. View quote
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. View quote
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. View quote
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If the young leddy was so careless o' insulting other folks' ancestors, it proves she has nane o' her ain; for them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others. View quote
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Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys. View quote
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There ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl." "Ought to be? Isn't there?" "No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. View quote
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Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock she had woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland, and her one fear was that he might notice how short it had become; but he never noticed, he had so much to say about himself. She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind. View quote
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I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago." "You promised not to!" "I couldn't help it. I am a married woman, Peter. View quote
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. (J. M. Barrie)
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. View quote
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. View quote
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All children, except one, grow up. View quote
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When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. View quote
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Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. View quote
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Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me," and I always reply in some such words as these: "Dear madam, I decline." View quote
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Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing. View quote
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Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least. View quote
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If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, "What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did." View quote
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Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. (J. M. Barrie)
To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young. View quote
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It is of another minister I am to tell, but only to those who know that light when they see it. View quote
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They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een. View quote
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Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. View quote
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