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fables

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But reach high atop that dusty bookshelf and grab “The Tortoise and the Hare” from Aesop’s Fables.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2022

Caroline Edwards is ICM’s director of podcast initiatives and has brokered deals with Spoke Media, Pantsuit Politics, and Flyest Fables.

From The Verge • Sep. 28, 2021

They also ended up in Hebrew and Latin and, eventually, as “The Fables of Bidpai,” in English and French.

From New York Times • May 24, 2021

Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables, says that when it comes to presidential falsehoods, some are much more consequential than others.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2021

I tried listening to The Misanthrope and Fontaine's Fables, but they were just too dense for me.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris