You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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