"But who of us could endure a world ...without the divine folly of honour ... I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no motion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendel Holmes in a Memorial Day
at the Harvard Graduating Class in 1895
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