THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a characf ter which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. The willow which lands to. ihe tempest often escapes hotter than the oak which resists il. So in great calamities, it somerimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their (last icily and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.—Sir Walter Scott.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 11 March 1933, Page 4
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