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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."	James M. Barrie	Peter Pan
"You see, Wendy, 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."	James M. Barrie	Peter Pan
" . . . every time a child says, `I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."	James M. Barrie	Peter Pan
"Do you know," Peter asked "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories."	James M. Barrie	Peter Pan
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.	James M. Barrie	The Little Minister
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next instant, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.	James M. Barrie	The Little Minister
"When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility."	James M. Barrie	The Little Minister
"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke."	James M. Barrie	What Every Woman Knows
"My lady, there are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."	James M. Barrie	What Every Woman Knows
" . . . it's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable."	James M. Barrie	The Little Minister

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