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When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
It is wonderful how much you can conceal between the touch of the handle and the opening of the door if your heart is in it.
J.M. BARRIE, Tommy and Grizel
Life is a long lesson in humility.
J.M. BARRIE, The Little Minister
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
J.M. BARRIE, The Little White Bird
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
J.M. BARRIE, speech, May 3, 1922
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J.M. BARRIE, The Twelve-Pound Look
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.
J.M. BARRIE, What Every Woman Knows
Temper [is] a weapon that we hold by the blade.
J.M. BARRIE, The Little Minister
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.
J.M. BARRIE, Sentimental Tommy
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
J.M. BARRIE, speech, May 3, 1922
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.
J.M. BARRIE, The Little Minister
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