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I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

— Daniel Boone Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1993)

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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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