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i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

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
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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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Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.
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Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams
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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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What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things?
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Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown
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Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
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Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
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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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You were hidden behind walls of ice no man had passed them I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
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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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We have a right to know the truth no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
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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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