There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

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Original Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Pearson Longman, 1898, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. Dover Publications, 2010, ch. 16.