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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
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the United States of America
James Matthew Barrie
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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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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Make your feet your friend.
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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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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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Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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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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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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Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
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When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
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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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What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things?
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asleep to rummage in their minds
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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 do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
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When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
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Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
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