“To set the cause above renown,
To love the game above the prize.”
Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) English poet and writer
The Island Race (1898).
“The Rifles were a new kind of regiment, prizing skill and intelligence above blind discipline.”
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)
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