Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

—J. M. Barrie

About J. M. Barrie

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him...

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The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

—J. M. Barrie

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

—J. M. Barrie

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.

—J. M. Barrie

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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

—J. M. Barrie

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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

—J. M. Barrie

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