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Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
Journalist
Librettist
Novelist
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the United States of America
James Matthew Barrie
J.M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie
1st Baronet
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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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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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He looked at her uncomfortably blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
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