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J. M. Barrie1860–1937

‘No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

J. M. Barrie on children

Peter Pan (1911), Chapter III

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