"There is good, in one view, in feeling that we have crossed the Rubicon and are in for it; then we shall hold stoutly on; otherwise, we may be advancing with only half a heart. And there are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole one makes just the difference between signal defeat and splendid victory."
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Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd in The Every-day Philosopher in Town and Country (1865), p. 101.
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