ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. One day, when the young ladies were of age to be married, a terrible, three-headed dragon laid siege to the kingdom, burning villages with fiery breath. It spoiled crops and burned churches. It killed babies, old people, and everyone in between.

The king promised a princess’s hand in marriage to whoever slayed the dragon. Heroes and warriors came in suits of armor, riding brave horses and bearing swords and arrows.

One by one, these men were slaughtered and eaten.

Finally the king reasoned that a maiden might melt the dragon’s heart and succeed where warriors had failed. He sent his eldest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon listened to not a word of her pleas. It swallowed her whole.

Then the king sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon did the same. Swallowed her before she could get a word out.

The king then sent his youngest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and she was so lovely and clever that he was sure she would succeed where the others had perished.

No indeed. The dragon simply ate her.

The king was left aching with regret. He was now alone in the world.

Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls?

The dragon? Or their father?


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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
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To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
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who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
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"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
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Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
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next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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he sang his didn't he danced his did
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
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