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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.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Strength instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
- Paul Eldridge
- If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
- If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
- Yiddish Proverb
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