Was it the forgetfulness that muscles grow strong only with exercise; that it is the duties of manhood that take the acrid humors out of a youth's blood; that it is great responsibility, manfully met, not cowardly evaded, that sobers and steadies and ennobles?
This statement highlights the importance of responsibility and personal growth through challenges.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
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