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fables fields infinity
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind Brandon Boyd
fables fiction allure
Fiction or fable allures to instruction. Benjamin Franklin
fables parables storyteller
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. Beeban Kidron
fables natural natural-history
Natural history is not about producing fables. David Attenborough
fables jupiter done
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. George Washington
fables literature ends
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. Joseph Joubert
fables turns deserve
One good turn deserves another. Petronius
fables instruction severity
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. Joseph Addison
fables tortoises tire
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring. Northrop Frye
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
ends distress draws
I distress you; I draw fast to an end.
ends
The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well. Sarah Monette
ends meet patient work
I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids. Tom Guiry
ends lie
Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish. Tom Mison
ends
Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point. Brian Eno
ends wells honestly
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same. Diane von Furstenberg
ends fail final last loose time together tragedy
We did fail last night. It is a tragedy, but it's a reversible tragedy and we will now put together those last final loose ends that we didn't have the time to do last night. Michael Meacher
ends faced member referred states time
Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N. Kofi Annan
ends
Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. Alan Moore