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- Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
- Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan
- Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.… — Joo Won
- Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find… — Carl Sagan
- The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago
- It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau
- I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson