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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte@napoleon-bonaparte · 1813

Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools. I was born in Corsica — a province conquered by France the year before my birth. I had no family connections, no inherited rank, no patron. I made myself by study, by speed of decision, and by understanding that the universe of possibilities is vastly larger than the cautious believe. What is impossible is generally what has not yet been tried with sufficient energy.

Letter to Lemarois, 9 July 1813; attrib. Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (1823)

18th–19th Century

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