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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.
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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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
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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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She was not a little girl heart-broken about him she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
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Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
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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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Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
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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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i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.
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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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All children, except one, grow up.
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We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
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I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man but to them I turn a deaf ear.
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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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