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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.
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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In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
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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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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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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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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
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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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All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
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Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
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Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
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Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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There could not have been a lovelier sight but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
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That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
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You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
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