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“Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

Humans Long Said Would Be Form Son Birth Ugly Queens Fairy Good Sense Once Upon A Time Common Good Uncommon Amiable Human Form

Book:Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

Source: Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”

“Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi”

Long Spirit Night Walks Planets Birth Bird Seasons Strikes Fairy All Night Saviour Larks

Author:William Shakespeare

“Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.”

Littles Sound Listening Birth Spring Ears Folks Seeds Fairy Flood Bud Lighters Sap Trance Sprouts Hedgerows

Book:Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition

Source: Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition

“For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.”

Men Giving Doe Evil Born Ability Brain Birth Equal Men And Women Injustice Deny Stealing Inequality Fairy Unjust Womb Born Free

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.”

Heart Son Birth Luck Thee Fairy Good Luck

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems