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'''Narrator''': ''And so, early the next morning, the young Prince Charming, dressed in a beautiful white robe, and gripping his magic sword, plummetted to a painful death.''|'''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]], "A Fairy Tale''' }} |
'''Narrator''': ''And so, early the next morning, the young Prince Charming, dressed in a beautiful white robe, and gripping his magic sword, plummetted to a painful death.''|'''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]], "A Fairy Tale''' }} |
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{{quote|"If you can slay the thorny Boar of Borythorn, she is yours," grinned a traveler. "But there is no thorny Boar of Borythorn, which makes it hard."|'''[[James Thurber]]''', ''[[ |
{{quote|"If you can slay the thorny Boar of Borythorn, she is yours," grinned a traveler. "But there is no thorny Boar of Borythorn, which makes it hard."|'''[[James Thurber]]''', ''[[The 13 Clocks]]''}} |
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For my own part, I come down on the side of courage. For courage makes a virtue of inexperience. I myself have commanded Imperial Guard troops whose probitor units have achieved great things, because their courage was infinite and because they were too inexperienced to realise that their goal was impossible.
—Leman Russ, Warhammer 40000
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Then the Baron took off his gold ring and threw it into the sea, saying: 'Never let me see your face till you can show me that ring'; and he let her go.
—"The Fish and the Ring"
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King Otto: Before I can give my permission, young man, I must set you a task, which, if you succeed, will prove you worthy of my daughter's hand. —Monty Python's Flying Circus, "A Fairy Tale
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"If you can slay the thorny Boar of Borythorn, she is yours," grinned a traveler. "But there is no thorny Boar of Borythorn, which makes it hard."
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