63 Quotes by Jacob Grimm

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    Fox, you are the most cunning of all animals, you shall be general and lead us.

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    But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same,” said the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father. Grethel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel, “Now all is over with us.” “Be quiet, Grethel,” said.

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    That is the true bride!” The step-mother and the two sisters were terrified and became pale with rage; he, however, took Cinderella on his horse and rode away with her.

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    These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king.

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    He who wants to be a sickle must bend himself betimes.

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    And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be.

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    The ring-dove sang from the willow spray, Well-a-day! Well-a-day! He mourn’d for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!

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    The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her. Red-Cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.

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