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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.
Augustus
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Polybius
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An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.
Stephen Jay Gould
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb
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History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
I. F. Stone
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Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
John Ford
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Anais Nin
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I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
Gregory Peck
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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Frank McCourt
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Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
Lauren Miller
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For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Harold Pinter
16.
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
Barbara Corcoran
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
Duane Gish
20.
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.
Ian Brown
22.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft
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Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.
Rick Wakeman
25.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
W. H. Auden
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To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Charles de Lint
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A false tale often betrays itself.
Aesop
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Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
Socrates
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For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
Carlos Castaneda
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A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
John Grisham
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Thomas More
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Every tale is not to be believed.
Aesop
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary
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A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
V. S. Pritchett
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev
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I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Natalia Kills
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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
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The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
William Cowper
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For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
James Elroy Flecker
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One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
John Avlon
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What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
Homer
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Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
Lord Byron