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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
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.
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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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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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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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