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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