"Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon."
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"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
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"The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down."
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"A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo."
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"Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps."
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire."
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"Americans are hidden dragons to me."
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"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"
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"To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul."
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"The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely."
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"We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
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"But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing."
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"All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon."
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"If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door."
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"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus."
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"One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse."
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"My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got."
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"She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around."
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"Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."
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"The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts."
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