Legend Quotes
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The Refusal of the Keys: it seemed like something from mythology, from medieval legend.
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Sternly she tried to frown the unseemly sensation down. Burgeon, indeed. She had heard of dried staffs, pieces of mere dead wood, suddenly putting forth fresh leaves, but only in legend. She was not in legend. She knew perfectly what was due to herself. Dignity demanded that she should have nothing to do with fresh leaves at her age; and yet there it was--the feeling that presently, that at any moment now, she might crop out all green.
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No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
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If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.
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The whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later Christians invented to persuade others that the resurrection indeed happened.
