But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest. (Emily Brontë)

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

Emily Brontë

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