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“I was mad for glory when I was young. I wanted to fight a griffin in the mountains of the North and steal its gold. I wanted to ride the horses of the sun, and rescue a princess from a tower of iron. . . . -- Ariantes to Pervica, his intended new wife, on his dreams at age 18.”

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