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Quotation from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“But if thy faith had not helped me, I should never have waited for Pegasus, and never have gone up above the clouds, and never have conquered the terrible Chimæra.”
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Chimæra (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242)
Returning victorious, Bellerophon credits the little boy who kept watch with him at the Fountain of Pirene.
Citation: "But if thy faith had not helped me, I should never have waited for Pegasus, and never have gone up above the clouds, and never have conquered the terrible Chimæra." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Chimæra (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242). (id a-wonder-book-q7)
Virtues: Faith, Friendship
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
