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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.
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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You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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We have a right to know the truth no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
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Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.
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The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
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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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i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.
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Forever is a very long time Peter
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Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
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A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.
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The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.
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What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be sorry and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
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One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.
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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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Make your feet your friend.
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In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
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