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1. "Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?" ~ Andrew Lang
2. "Life's more amusing than we thought." ~ Andrew Lang
3. "I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living." ~ Andrew Lang
4. "...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'." ~ Andrew Lang
5. "Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its queens, its amorous, its cruel, its good, its evil, its odious, its friendly fées." ~ Andrew Lang
6. "You can cover a great deal of country in books." ~ Andrew Lang
7. "Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it." ~ Andrew Lang
8. "Here stand my books, line upon lineThey reach the roof, and row by row,They speak of faded tastes of mine,And things I did, but do not, know." ~ Andrew Lang
9. "THE BRONZE RING" ~ Andrew Lang
10. "real shepherd to repent of his folly; and before he had gone very far he met with a horse boy and a driver" ~ Andrew Lang
11. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." ~ Andrew Lang
12. "I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants." ~ Andrew Lang
13. "Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend "a course of reading." Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course." ~ Andrew Lang
14. "It is so delightful to teach those one loves!" ~ Andrew Lang
15. "O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers." ~ Andrew Lang
16. "In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human.  The princes and princesses fall in love and marry--nothing could be more human than that.  Their lives and loves are crossed by human sorrows...The hero and heroine are persecuted or separated by cruel stepmothers or enchanters; they have wanderings and sorrows to suffer; they have adventures to achieve and difficulties to overcome; they must display courage, loyalty and address, courtesy, gentleness and gratitude.  Thus they are living in a real human world, though it wears a mythical face, though there are giants and lions in the way.  The old fairy tales which a silly sort of people disparage as too wicked and ferocious for the nursery, are really 'full of matter,' and unobtrusively teach the true lessons of our wayfaring in a world of perplexities and obstructions." ~ Andrew Lang
17. "If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums." ~ Andrew Lang
18. "Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land." ~ Andrew Lang
19. "When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly about, flung himself on the ground and died." ~ Andrew Lang
20. "So labour at your Alphabet,For by that learning shall you getTo lands where Fairies may be met." ~ Andrew Lang
21. "And he married the Echo one fortunate morn,And Woman, their beautiful daughter, was born!The daughter of Sunshine and Echo she cameWith a voice like a song, with a face like a flame;With a face like a flame, and a voice like a song,And happy was Man, but it was not for long!For weather's a painfully changeable thing,Not always the child of the Echo would sing;And the face of the Sun may be hidden with mist,And his child can be terribly cross if she list.And unfortunate man had to learn with surpriseThat a frown's not peculiar to masculine eyes;That the sweetest of voices can scold and sneer,And cannot be answered - like men - with a spear" ~ Andrew Lang

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My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner."
Author: Ben Aaronovitch

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