Recently read a few stories by Hans Christian Andersen and I liked what he had to say.
Enjoy.
The Fir Tree
All stories must come to an end some time or other.
Oh, if I could but grow and grow and become tall and old! That is the only thing in the world worth living for.
The Ugly Duckling
It matters not to have been born in a duck-yard, if one has been hatched from a swan's egg.
You are really very ugly...but that does not matter to us if you do not wish to marry into our family.
The Tinder Box
But the Queen was a very wise and clever woman who could do other things besides ride in a carriage.
The Nightingale
Truly one may learn something from books.
The whole world, it seems, knows what I have, better than I do myself.
The Snow Queen
She determined to marry if she could find a man who knew what to say when people spoke to him and not one who could only look grand, for that was tiresome.
It must be very tedious standing out here; I prefer to go in.
The Traveling Companion
Johannes was not fearful, for he had a good conscience, and, besides, he knew that the dead never injure anyone. It is only living, wicked men that do any harm.
The Little Mermaid
One must not mind slight inconveniences when one wishes to look well.
Your graceful form...your modest gait, and speaking eyes with such as these, it will be easy to infatuate a vain human heart.
After three hundred years we shall fly in the kingdom of Heaven.
My life may arguably be like a fairy tale.
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