Every man who is striving to do good public work is traveling along a ridge crest, with the gulf of failure on each side—the gulf of inefficiency on the one side, the gulf of unrighteousness on the other.
In "The Strenuous Life," this quote uses a vivid metaphor to describe the precarious balance public servants must maintain between inefficiency and unrighteousness.
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