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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.


James Matthew Barrie

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J.M. BARRIE I am the best there ever was!
J.M. BARRIE He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
J.M. BARRIE One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he...
J.M. BARRIE Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny...
J.M. BARRIE But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the c...
J.M. BARRIE Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she wa...
J.M. BARRIE Why can't you fly now, mother?"
"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forge...
J.M. BARRIE She asked where he lived.

Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till m...
J.M. BARRIE Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John...
J.M. BARRIE Two is the beginning of the end.
J.M. BARRIE