"Idle man, chases after fairy tales."
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"How easy it is to tell tales!"
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"History is a tragegy, not a morality tale."
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"A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins."
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"This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable."
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"I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love."
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"All great novels are great fairy tales."
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"What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale."
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"If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool."
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"I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice."
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"All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing."
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"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
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"All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all."
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"All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce."
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"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."
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"The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again."
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"Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly."
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"I hate To tell again a tale once fully told."
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"A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!"
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