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title: "3 Stories Thousand Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Stories Thousand quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Stories Thousand sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Peasants and princes, bailiffs and bakers' boys, merchants and mermaids, the figures were all immediately familiar. I had read these stories a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-setterfield/peasants-and-princes-bailiffs-and-bakers-boys-merchants-and-mermaids/)

[Diane Setterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-setterfield/)

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> [Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-funke/her-curiosity-was-too-much-for-her-she-felt-almost-as-if-she-could/)

[Cornelia Funke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-funke/)

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> [“Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-m-forester/maybe-like-the-never-ending-stories-within-stories-of-the-one/)

[H.M. Forester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-m-forester/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/274/h-m-forester-17957_dream_maybe-like-the-never-ending-stories-with_2056312.jpg)

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