J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie

"Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children."
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"Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children."
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"Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs."
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"We are all failures- at least the best of us are."
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"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
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"I'm not young enough to know everything."
J.M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton
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"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
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"“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”"
J.M. Barrie Peter Pan
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"Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night"
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"Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses."
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"If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear."
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"Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples."
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"A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey."
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"Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown."
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"‎She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles."
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"She says she glories in being abandoned"
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"All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me. It may be that I wondered over-much. Perhaps that was why I lost her."
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"It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy."
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"Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home"
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"Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."
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"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
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