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“In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid”

Long Age Night Fire Winter Folks Tales Thee Long Ago Tedious

Author:William Shakespeare

“A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.”

Giving Wells May Long Facts Stories Sides Failing Humour Give Me Tales Native Reign Your Side Illustration Sedentary Weavers Enlisted

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.”

Long Memories Dear Tales Long Ago

Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly

“Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.”

Littles Long Life Is Animal Our Lives Sticks Disaster Tales Triumph Unpredictable Unpredictable Things

Book:If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet

Source: If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet

“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”

Way Firsts Long Made Book Country Humanity Culture Building Lessons Built Communicate Tales Learning Lessons

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.”

People Writing Believe Long Stills Lying Humanity Clear Tales Storyteller Illiterate

Author:Gunter Grass

“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.”

“And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.”

Years Children Long Dream Earth Memories Kings Tasks Tales Queens Accomplished Companion Passed Away Bards

Book:The High King

Source: The High King