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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.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
chilly, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, drawer, drawers, falls, force, for anything, interesting, in particular, open, particular, Particulars, past, recalling, recalls, safe, safes, searching
«I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.»
«The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
capabilities, gladsome, high, high and low, low, rise, saddest, seldom
«Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men»
«What is genius?- It is the power to be a boy again at will»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
at will, boy, Boys Will Be Boys, genius, The Power, This Boy
«Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.»
«Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others»
«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.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Smile
| Keywords:
high up, lets, smiles
«What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
algebra, cornered, exactly, three-cornered
«Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
ambition, infirmity, noble-minded, noble
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