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“Scarce had Aladdin’s mother begun to rub the Lamp when there appeared to her one of the Jinn, who said to her in a voice like thunder, “Say what you want of me. Here am I, your slave and the slave of whosoever holds the Lamp.”
― Antoine Galland, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: A Classic Folktale from the ‘Arabian Nights’

tags: aladdin, arabian-nights, folktale

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“Her name was Hildegardis, and she was acknowledged far and wide as the fairest of maidens.”
― Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Aslauga's Knight

tags: chivalry, knight, maiden, romance

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#3

“The King’s daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.”
― Walter Traill Dennison, Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm: The Legendary Scottish ‘Dragon Slayer’ Folktale

tags: legend, orkney, scotland

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#4

“Her godmother, who was a fairy, said, "You would like to go to the ball, is that not so?”
― Charles Perrault, Cendrillon and the Glass Slipper: The French 'Cinderella' Fairytale

tags: ball, cendrillon, cinderella, fairy, godmother

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#5

“A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.”
― Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North

tags: bear, daughter, father, white

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#6

“Troutie, my bonnie little fellow, am not I the most beautiful woman in all the world?”
― Kenneth MacLeod, Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree: The Scottish 'Snow White' Fairytale

tags: gold, scotland, silver, snow-white, tree, trout

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#7

“Oh!” exclaimed Marie at last, “who does the charming little fellow in the tree belong to, dearest Papa?”
“He should work hard for all of you, dear child,” her father replied. “He can bite the hardest of nuts and crack them open for you, and he belongs to Luise as much as to you and Fritz.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and The Mouse King

tags: christmas, christmas-eve, mouse-king, nutcracker, present

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#8

“Persinette, let down your hair.”
― Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force, Persinette, the Maiden in the Tower: The French 'Rapunzel' Fairytale

tags: france, french, hair, maiden, rapunzel, tower

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#9

“Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. “Death and another are closely pursuing me!”
― Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

tags: death, devil, sintram

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#10

“Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest one of all?”
― Jacob Grimm, Snow White

tags: fairytale, mirror, snow-white

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#11

“The Princess Talia shall pierce her hand with a spindle and die of the wound.”
― Rachel Louise Lawrence, Talia, the Sleeping Beauty: A European Fairytale

tags: basile, perrault, sleeping-beauty

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#12

“I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!”
― Jacob Grimm, The Singing, Springing Lark

tags: beast, beauty, brothers-grimm, lady, lark, lion

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#13

“It is easier to reason with love than to conquer it.”
― Madame de Villeneuve

tags: fairy-tale, love

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#14

“Each now has permission to seek the maiden in whatever way he thinks best.”
― Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, The Two Captains: Summer

tags: alva, general

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#15

“If you have not guessed my name by month’s end, then you shall be mine!”
― Edward Clodd, Tom Tit Tot & Sequel: The English ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ Folktale

tags: england, guess, helper, name, rumpelstiltskin

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#16

“You must know, my own love, that in each element there exists a race of beings, whose form scarcely differs from yours, but who very seldom appear to mortal sight … you now see before you, my love, an undine.”
― Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Undine, The Water Sprite: Spring

tags: element, mermaid, spirit, sprite, undine, water

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#18

“In a few years, the date-tree had grown as tall as a woman, and out of it came a Fairy, who said to Zezolla, "What do you wish for?”
― Giambattista Basile, Zezolla, The Cat Cinderella: An Italian Fairytale

tags: cat, cenerentola, cinderella, date, fairy, tree, zezolla

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#18

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#19

“A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.”
― Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North

tags: bear, daughter, father, white

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#20

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#21

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#23

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#24

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#25

“It is easier to reason with love than to conquer it”
― Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, The Story of the Beauty and the Beast: The Original Classic French Fairytale

tags: beauty-and-the-beast, conquer, fairytale, love, reason

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#26

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#27

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#28

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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#29

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
― Maya Angelou

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#30

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#31

“What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.”
― Mary McCarthy

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