So many American start-up tales involve lessons learned from this childhood exercise.

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Knowing the Chinese fondness for legends, I summon up some Celtic tall tales from my childhood that involve ferocious warriors, vicious kings, an improbably large potato, a brave young prince and the inevitable triumph of good.

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Take the lilies and the lace from the days of childhood, all the willow winding paths leading up and outward.

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From his earliest childhood, he had been unafraid of danger, undaunted by enemy gunfire or climbing up cliffs.

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Bautista, 19, had saved up money to buy a gold ring for Maria Isabel, his childhood sweetheart from their indigenous village in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Her parents, from Woodford Green, east London, set up a blog which aims to increase awareness of childhood cancer and raises money for GOSH.

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