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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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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
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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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If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water.
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Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
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It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
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When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.
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David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
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She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
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On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
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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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That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
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Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.
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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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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.
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