"There are not too many fables about man's……" — Richard Brautigan

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• Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal… — Francis Bacon
• 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic… — Thomas Aquinas
• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a… — Unknown Author
• I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the… — Francis Bacon
• What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray
• 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
• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall… — Francis Bacon

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