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He was a poet and they are never exactly grown-up.
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
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If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
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Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
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She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
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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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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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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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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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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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I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
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You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
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Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
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