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Thought for the day
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
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- 1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode by Thomas Gray
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- Thomas Anstey Guthrie: Harry Furniss, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Fidelis Morgan: The Cambridge Union, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Guy Walters: Guywalters, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- James Graham: Starhunterfan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- John Freeman Milward Dovaston: James Giles, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth: Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Nicholas Monsarrat: Racklever, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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