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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Hans Christian Andersen

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.
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Gun Heart Morning
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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Enjoy Improvement Life Self
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Flower Nature Philosophical
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
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
Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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Ask Me More Understanding
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
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Air Clear Dust Glitter Stars
It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born … Some call me the Elder Granny, others – the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.
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Memories Names Real
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
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
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
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Glorious Happiness Knowing Stars Years
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
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
Each time I think that the song is ended … something higher and better begins for me.
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Higher Song Thinking
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
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Fairy Tale Real Salt