literature

Rather, I remember a scene from Tolstoy’s War and Peace , one I had not thought of in years. It is a scene wherein a character, Prince Andrei, suffers what is perhaps a mortal wound in the historical “Battle of the Three Emperors” in 1805 while fighting on the side of the Russians against his idol Napoleon:

"What is it? Am I falling? Are my legs

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For if

once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think

little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and

Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once

begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.