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“[M]y father discourag'd me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one.”
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“No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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“What!You know German?”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.”
― Undisputed Truth
― Undisputed Truth
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“However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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