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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
J.M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie
1st Baronet
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All children, except one, grow up.
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They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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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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Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
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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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Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
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Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
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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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I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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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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If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
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Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. Greeting, boys, he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. I am back, he said hotly, why do you not cheer?
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He looked at her uncomfortably blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
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Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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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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