"Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol."

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I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

— Winston Churchill