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No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring i

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing

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[W]hen the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

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Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature. – Lynn Holland

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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. – Samuel Smiles

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There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring. – John Selden, "Parson," Table Talk, 1689

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