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Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
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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Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
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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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Oh, the cleverness of me!
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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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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She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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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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All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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Love is not blind it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
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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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