"He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax."

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Source : Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.11, Library of Alexandria

Charles Perrault

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“The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.”

Source : Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs”, Lund Humphries Publishers
“Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist comes up with something that they have spotted in the universe that we have no idea exists today.”
“Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.”
“Want to be a better leader? Meditate in the morning and prepare yourself for the day ahead.”
“You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.”

Source : "Fictional character: Marty Piletti". "Marty", 1955.
“History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.”
“The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.”
“Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ...”

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