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• You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Liars, Thieves

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• Fairy tales are more than true.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fairy Stories, Fairy Tale, Coraline

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• No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Trying, Fascination, Wasting Time

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

  Erin Morgenstern

  Princess, Hero, Evil

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.404, Random House

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• Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Insanity, Safe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.84, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Ideas

  "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

  Steven Brust

  Speak

  Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.67, Penguin

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• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Princess, Adversity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Rewards, Gains, Rich

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2008). “Catholic Tales and Christian Songs”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Cutting, Night

  William Shakespeare (1768). “The Works of Shakespear, from Mr. Pope's Edition”, p.122

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• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Years, Imagination, Wanted

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• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  Victoria Beckham

  People, House, Want

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• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Jealousy, Hate

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.73, Elsevier

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• When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Real, Doors, Prison

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• The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  Don Bluth

  Teamwork, Heart, Artist

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• People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

  Anne McCaffrey

  Gmos, People, Form

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• They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Kings, Book, Mercury

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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  Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

  Phil McGraw

  Determination, Hiking, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

  John Keats

  Sleep

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.217, Wordsworth Editions

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• It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doe, Equations

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• But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Principles, Generations

  "English Traits".

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• The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

  Pliny the Elder

  Snakes, Tree, Javelin

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Struggle, Wrestling, Men

  Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

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