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Hercules: The Power Of Strength
Hercules was the strongest man on earth and he had the supreme self-confidence magnificent physical strength gives. Everybody has a strength, whether it's physically or mentally. Like Hercules his physical strength saved him from obstacles throughout his life, but as a result of his strong emotions he harmed himself by killing others with his strength. Hercules goes through profusion a challenges throughout his life that required him to use his strength as well as his skills. He showed his brute force from a surprisingly early age when he wrestled a snake that had slithered into his baby cradle. By the time he was eighteen he was full-grown and he killed, alone by himself, a tremendous lion, which lived in the woods of Cithaeron, the Thespian

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