(182 votes)   Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(120 votes)   The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(117 votes)   Life is too short for a long story.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(114 votes)   Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(111 votes)   Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright, President

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(100 votes)   With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Sir Philip Sidney
1554-1586, British Author, Courtier

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