TALE

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1. Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
   Long, long ago, long, long ago.—T. H. BAYLY, Long, Long Ago
   

2. Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir.—GEORGE CANNING, The Friend of Humanity & the Knife-Grinder
   

3. There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.—WILLA CATHER, O Pioneers
   

4. A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.—IRVIN COBB
   

5. The world hath just one tale to tell, and it is very old, a little tale—a simple tale—a tale that's easy told: "There was a youth in Babylon who greatly loved a maid!"—DON MARQUIS, News from Babylon
   

6. A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.—Proverb
   

7. Tales of Robin Hood are good enough for fools.—Proverb
   

8. A good tale ill told is a bad one.—Proverb
   

9. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe
   And then from hour to hour we rot and rot;
   And thereby hangs a tale.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

10. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
    Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
    Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
    Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
    And each particular hair to stand an end,
    Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

11. Little shall I grace my cause
    In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
    I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
    Of my whole course of love.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

12. An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

13. 'Tis a Chronicle of day by lay.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

14. A sad tale's best for winter.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale