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We have a right to know the truth no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.
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It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
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You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was made from his funny bone.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
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Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
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I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
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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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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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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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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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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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Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
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