“ ...in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him...”
I think we should memorize this, make our students memorize it, and then say it after the Pledge of Allegiance every morning!
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