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  2. 5 important lessons we learned from Roald Dahl's stories - AOL

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    Each of Dahl's iconic stories taught us about life, love, and finding ourselves in the unlikeliest of places. Here are some lessons we learned from five of his most famous stories and scripts. 1.

  3. The Book of Virtues - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Virtues (subtitled A Treasury of Great Moral Stories) is a 1993 anthology edited by William Bennett.It consists of 370 passages across ten chapters devoted to a different virtue, each of the latter escalating in complexity as they progress.

  4. English Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    She compiled and retold these stories, offering readers a glimpse into the rich cultural heritage of the Indian subcontinent. [4] In the preface of Tales of the Punjab, she explains the intention with which it was written. She aimed to engage the imagination of children while simultaneously providing a valuable source for adults studying ...

  5. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the grasshopper then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among ...

  6. Escaping the LA fires: Heart-pounding stories of fleeing the ...

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    'All lessons are hard lessons' ... Today, those single-story homes often sell for more than $1 million, she said. But she also worries what it means for her own family, and the loss of 15 years of ...

  7. 6 life lessons 'The Wizard of Oz' taught us all - AOL

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    So in honor of the 77th anniversary of the classic film, take a look at the life lessons we all learned from the iconic movie: SEE ALSO: Pokémon live-action movie is finally a go 1.

  8. The Old Man and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    The moral drawn from the fable by Babrius was that "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher". In his emblem book Hecatomgraphie (1540), Gilles Corrozet reflected on it that if there can be friendship among strangers, it is even more of a necessity among family members. [4]

  9. Moral - Wikipedia

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    A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. [1] The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. [2] A moral is a lesson in a story or real life. [3]