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Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

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Adventure, Care, Woe

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.40, 谷月社

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Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

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Believe, Islands, Differences

"Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".

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asleep to rummage in their minds

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Mind

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.4, 谷月社

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They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

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Children, Desert, Novelty

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What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

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Wish, Splendid, Peter

James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.119, Jazzybee Verlag

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That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

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Echoes, Hands, Names

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.9, 谷月社

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The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

James M. Barrie

Science, Men, Doe

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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.

James M. Barrie

Life, Drinking, Opportunity

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The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

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Giving, Novelists, Fiction

"The Contemporary Review" Magazine, 1891.

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Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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Art, Eggs, Broken

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

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Boys, Peter, Wendy

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If I were younger, I'd know more.

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Wisdom, Age, Aging

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Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

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Children, Selfish, Heartless

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.86, 谷月社

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Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

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Believe, Fairy, Don't Believe

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Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

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Mother, Way, Respect Women

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

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Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

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Breathe, Neverland, Dies

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.88, 谷月社

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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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Love You, Boys, Firsts

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.88, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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Mother, Eye, Humble

James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

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Sex, Jewels, Fats

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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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Morning, Upper Class, Pull Ups

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When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

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Long, Bells, Littles

James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

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Islands, Rate, Rounds

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

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Beautiful, Heart, Curves

James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

James M. Barrie

Play, Peter

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Born: May 9, 1860
Died: June 19, 1937
Occupation: Baronet Barrie
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