Wednesday 23 June 2021

Do you respect your adversary? Read the finest paragraph ever written on this

From the classic by Ernest Hemingway, 'The Old Man and the Sea'

"He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought.  I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do, if he made his run.  If I were him, I would put in everything now and go until something broke.  But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we are who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. 

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