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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
James Matthew Barrie
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I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man but to them I turn a deaf ear.
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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness no one except Peter.
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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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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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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've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
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Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
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Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. Greeting, boys, he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. I am back, he said hotly, why do you not cheer?
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All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
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You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
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If I were younger, I'd know more.
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Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
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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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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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Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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