To be born is to be wrecked on an island. — J.M. Barrie · Skopia

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To be born is to be wrecked on an island.

1913

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Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

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