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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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Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams
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I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
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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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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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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
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You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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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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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.
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Make your feet your friend.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
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