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Age
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You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
-James Barrie
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Ambition
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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
-James Barrie
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Anger
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
-James Barrie
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Belief
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Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
-James Barrie
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Change
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
-James Barrie
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Death
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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
-James Barrie
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
-James Barrie
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Desires
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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.
-James Barrie
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Failure
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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.
-James Barrie
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Fairy Tales
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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. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.
-James Barrie, Peter Pan
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Happiness
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-James Barrie
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Heaven
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Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
-James Barrie
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Kindness
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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?
Often paraphrased as: Always be a little kinder than necessary.
-James Barrie, The Little White Bird, 1902
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Life
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
-James Barrie
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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
-James Barrie
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Love
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If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
-James Barrie
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Marriage
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
-James Barrie
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Men
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
-James Barrie
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
-James Barrie
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Past, the
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
-James Barrie
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Praise
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
-James Barrie
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Reading
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
-James Barrie
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Reason
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
-James Barrie
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Service
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
-James Barrie
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Strength
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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
-James Barrie
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Books by and about James Barrie