James M. Barrie Quotes
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Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
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Always be a little kinder than necessary.
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
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We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
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It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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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.
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.