“One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?”

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 14 (p. 191)

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American novelist, Short story writer 1935

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