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Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.

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Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

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The most useless are those who never change through the years.

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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: May 9th, 1860

Died: June 19th, 1937

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