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Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
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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A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
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Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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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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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.
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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
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Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.
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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
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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.
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