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> [In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/in-1893-miss-m-roalfe-cox-brought-together-in-a-volume-of-the-folk/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

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> [The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/the-truth-is-my-folk-lore-friends-and-my-saturday-reviewer-differ/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

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## More by Joseph Jacobs

> [In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/in-1893-miss-m-roalfe-cox-brought-together-in-a-volume-of-the-folk/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [“Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/then-she-took-the-heart-and-liver-of-the-little-girl-and-she-stewed/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/the-celtic-folk-tales-have-been-collected-while-the-practice-of-story/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/the-great-problems-of-the-twentieth-century-will-have-immediate/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/the-successful-men-of-action-are-not-sufficiently-self-observant-to/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/soils-and-national-characters-differ-but-fairy-tales-are-the-same-in/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/obscure-as-still-remains-the-origin-of-that-genre-of-romance-to-which/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/certainly-there-is-abundant-evidence-of-the-early-transmission-by/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/nowhere-else-is-there-so-large-and-consistent-a-body-of-oral/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/every-place-but-that-in-which-one-is-born-is-equally-strange-and/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/one-might-almost-say-that-the-history-of-geographical-discovery/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/children-and-sometimes-those-of-larger-growth-will-not-read-dialect/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/the-first-two-crusades-brought-the-flower-of-european-chivalry-to/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/forgiveness-is-the-highest-and-most-difficult-of-all-moral-lessons/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

> [The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/the-words-fairy-tales-must-accordingly-be-taken-to-include-tales-in/)

[Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/)

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