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They were mere fables, good for empty heads with no proper conception of life.
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Nor is there anything to surprise us in this mixture of the authentic Gospels and mere fables.
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Kill a man, and then see if what we hear of ghosts and spirits are mere fables.
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These, I assure you, are mere fables.
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The Kings of Egypt and Assyria, who were contemporaries of Solomon, are forgotten, and their histories mere fables.
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Their stories are mere fables.
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Most of these tales are mere fables; but it is possible that in altogether exceptional instances they rest on a foundation of fact.
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That, when Our revelations are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old.
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"Tush," returned Cetoxa, "the same thing has been said of the quack Cagliostro,-merefables.