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We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
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the United States of America
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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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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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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold 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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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
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Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
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Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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