The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet

Address to the Samoan Students, Malua (Jan 1890)

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