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  • Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
    "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold;
    Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
    Than the defect; better the more than less;
    Better like Hector in the field to die,
    Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Morituri Salutamus", (pp. 142-144), 1922.