“I see you off and sorrow—Oh, to be
your horse on land, your vessel on the stream!”
Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer
Ðưa chàng lòng dằng dặc buồn,
Bộ khôn bằng ngựa, thủy khôn bằng thuyền.
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 27–28
“I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.”
— Rick Riordan, book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
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