Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.

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