THINGS SAID BY SIR J. M. BARRIE
Barrie's voice is still, but some of the tilings he said will live. Here are a few:— Life is a long lesson in humility. There is a crown for us all somewhere. It’s grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. To die would be an awfully big adventure. When the first baby laughed for the first time’ his laugh broke intb a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies. What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. The gates of heaven are always standing open to let children wander in. The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modem times, one sometimes forgets which. As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man. One day there was a hor.se show on the Glasgow Academicals Grounds, and I patronised it and lost a penny on the ground. I went back at night, climbed the palings, and searched for my penny. I found threepence. No wonder I have a friendly feeling for Glasgow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)
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219THINGS SAID BY SIR J. M. BARRIE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)
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