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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
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
the United States of America
James Matthew Barrie
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
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When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.
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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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Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
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Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
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Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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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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You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
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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.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
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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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Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
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