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Hans Christian Andersen - The Ugly Duckling (1843)

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His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

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I never dreamt I should find so much happiness when I was the ugly duckling!

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It doesn't matter about being born in a duckyard, as long as you're hatched from a swan's egg!

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His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

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Hans Christian Andersen

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Born: April 2, 1805
Died: August 5, 1875 (aged 70)
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