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«Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.»
«It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.»
Author: Irwin Edman | Keywords: fable, mandate, mandated, mandates
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.»
«ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians --may their souls be happy in Heaven!»
«Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Charity | Keywords: fable
«Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.»
«A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him»
«It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.»
«I can find my biography in every fable that I read»
«All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.»

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