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Quotation from The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley
“for each of us has a Golden Fleece to seek, and a wild sea to sail over ere we reach it, and dragons to fight ere it be ours.”
The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The Argonauts, Part I: How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion (Project Gutenberg #677 (1889 Macmillan edition))
Kingsley's introduction to the Argonauts, after comparing them with brave men and women of his own day.
Citation: "for each of us has a Golden Fleece to seek, and a wild sea to sail over ere we reach it, and dragons to fight ere it be ours." — Charles Kingsley, The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The Argonauts, Part I: How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion (Project Gutenberg #677 (1889 Macmillan edition)). (id kingsley-the-heroes-q5)
