For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character. (Cressida Cowell)

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Cressida Cowell

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