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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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the United States of America
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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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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Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
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Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
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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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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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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
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You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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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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I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.
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In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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