"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a… — Unknown Author
• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the… — Francis Bacon
• Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander… — George Perkins Marsh
• The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost… — James Madison
• Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the… — 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;… — Joseph Conrad
• That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile,… — Marc Maron
• So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw… — Aeschylus
• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all… — Walt Whitman
• And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a… — Richard Crashaw

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