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J.M. Barrie5 quotes
To be born is to be wrecked on an island. — J.M. Barrie · 1913To die will be an awfully big adventure. — J.M. Barrie · 1904Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. — J.M. Barrie · 1904"If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die." — J.M. Barrie · 1904It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. — J.M. Barrie · 1908Charles Lyell1 quote
Although we are mere sojourners on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the interior of the solid globe. — Charles Lyell · 1830