Comparison between Santiago and the Englishman(Dream verses reality)

I want to approve the Englishman`s personal legend is real and fact ,because he has evidences to follow them ,such as the Alchemist that he knew about him, and he has some books talked about him allready for, those reason has was very confidents when they were in their journey,and he knew he will meet the Alchemist. On the other Santiago was not confident in his personal legend inspite of he has been pushing hard from all those people who met to accomplish his personal legend ,he was not confident about it ,because he did not have real guide to make him believe on that so, he thought his personal legend just a kind of attainable.
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