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From Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen
- Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
- I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least…
- Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.
- To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
- Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep;…
- Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
- Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
- Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest…
- Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as…
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