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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
Journalist
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the United States of America
James Matthew Barrie
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
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He looked at her uncomfortably blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
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