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Oh, the cleverness of me!
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
1st Baronet
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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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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.
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Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. Perhaps he is ill, Michael said. You know he is never ill. Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy! and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been cry
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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
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One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.
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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
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Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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Love is not blind it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
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There could not have been a lovelier sight but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
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If I were younger, I'd know more.
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Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
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