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Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
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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All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
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Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.
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She was not a little girl heart-broken about him she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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