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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

Hans Christian Andersen

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
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Princess Sea Stupid
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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Bad Good Shining Sun
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
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Age Fleeting Thinking
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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Brave Brave Soldiers Soldier
A human life is a story told by God.
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Condolences Grief Human Life Sympathy
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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Altogether Beauty Created Some
There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn’t do it–he knew better how to use his money than that.
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Littles might Money Street Use
A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.
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Destiny Eternal Mermaid Winning
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
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Different Men Mind Precular
Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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Answers Giving Stupid
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
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Duckling Eggs Swans Ugly
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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Men Wiser Wisest
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
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Inspirational Moving Travel
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
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Butter Many People
Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!
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Blood Fate Heart Street
At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father’s palace as a dead man.
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Dead Father Human Men People

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