“If you come to a dangerous place, and turn back from it, though it may have been perfectly right and wise to do, still your character has suffered some slight deterioration; you are to that extent weaker, more lifeless, more effeminate, more liable to passion and error in future; whereas if you go through with the danger though it may have been apparently wrong and foolish to encounter it, you come out of the encounter a stronger and better man, fitter for every sort of work and trial, and nothing but danger produces this.”

This is my new favorite quote, and the reason I put milk in my cereal on the ninth floor this morning, even though I was going to eat it on the third floor.

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