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- What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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… — Unknown Author
- I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of… — Francis Bacon
- Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even… — George Perkins Marsh
- The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison
- Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is… — Charles Warren Stoddard
- Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
- There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant,… — Joseph Conrad
- That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and… — Marc Maron
- So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion… — Aeschylus
- Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman