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Author : Henry Stephens Salt
: Seventy Years Among Savages
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...those who work with no expectation of seeing results cannot be disappointed; they are beyond the scope of failure, and may even meet, as we did, with some small and unforeseen success. The [Humanitarian] League was thus, in the true sense of the term, a Forlorn Hope; that is, a troop of venturesome pioneers, who were quite untrammeled by “prospects,” and whose whim it was to open out a path by which others might eventually follow.
From : Chapter 14: The Forlorn Hope, Page 201..
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