"The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man."
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John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III, line 2,015. (1700)
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