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  1. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
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  2. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    Powerful infatuations can be induced by the skilful potioneer, but never yet has anyone managed to create the truly unbreakable, eternal, unconditional attachment that alone can be called Love
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  3. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
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  4. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
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  5. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    Let muggles manage without us!
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  6. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.
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  7. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.
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  8. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.
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  9. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.
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  10. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
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  11. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    Hope springs forever.
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  12. J.K. Rowling _ The Tales of Beedle the Bard

    But Death was cunning.
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