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"Oh, grandmother, what big ears you have!"
"The better to hear you with".
"Oh, grandmother, what big eyes you have!"
"The better to see you with".
"Oh, grandmother, what big hands you have!"
"The better to grab you with".
"But, grandmother, what a dreadful big mouth you have!"
"The better to eat you with".The Brothers Grimm
Little Red Riding Hood.

The first [dwarf] said: "Who has been sitting in my chair?"
The second: "Who has been eating off my plate?"
The third: "Who has taken a bite of my bread?"
The fourth: "Who has been eating some of my vegetables?"
The fifth: "Who has been using my fork?"
The sixth: "Who has been cutting with my knife?"
And the seventh: "Who has been drinking out of my cup?"
Then the first looked around, saw a little hollow in his bed and said: "Who has been lying in my bed?"
The others came running, and cried out: "Somebody has been lying in my bed too".
But when the seventh looked at his bed, he saw Snow White lying there asleep.The Brothers Grimm
Snow White.

"Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster."
"Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart."
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
Beauty and the Beast.

 

Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth.Peter Feyerabend

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.Charles Perrault
Cinderalla.
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.Charles Perrrault

• Sleeping Beauty.