“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
