Excerpt from Kit, Vol. 2 of 3: A Memory
Resolution,' say the philosophers, and justly, conquers all things,' but then one must be very careful in the definition of that virtue. It is dangerously akin to obstinacy, a weapon which conquers nothing, and brings him who wields it to great grief. I have noticed that when an exceptionally brutal person is put On his trial for manslaughter he is always described by the reporters as a determined'
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