"Resisted temptations become lost opportunities."
"The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal."
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Source: Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”
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