Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was t…

Ernest Hemingway
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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (1995). The old man and the sea, p.17, Hueber Verlag
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