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Hans Christian Andersen

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The Ugly Duckling.

Hans Christian Andersen

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To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen

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A human life is a story told by God.

Hans Christian Andersen

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But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

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"But the emperor has nothing at all on!" a little child declared.

Hans Christian Andersen

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Then they knew that the lady they had lodged was a real Princess, since she had felt the one small pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather-beds, for it was quite impossible for any one but a true Princess to be so tender.

Hans Christian Andersen

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