“Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.”

—  William Morley Punshon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 247.

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