rapier-scarred

Updated: July 11, 2025

Better even an occasional nose dented by a fist, a broken bone, a rapier-scarred face, or even sometimes the sacrifice of the life of one of our best academic youth than stagnation, general cynicism and censoriousness, bodily and psychic cowardice, and moral corruption, if this indeed be, as it sometimes is, its real alternative.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene