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FABLES [ Also see Allegories Books Facts Literature Mythology Romance Writing ] Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.       - Joseph Addison There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric; and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver.       - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.       - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fiction or fable allures to instruction.       - Benjamin Franklin As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.       - William Hazlitt (1) Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.       - Horace Mann History is but a fable agreed upon.       - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.       - Archbishop Richard Whately The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner. Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Last Revised: 2018 December 9 Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.

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