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About J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie was a 19th-century Scottish novelist and playwright. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
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“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
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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.”
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“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
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“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
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