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“O brothers,” I said, “who after a hundred thousand

perils have reached the west,

in this little waking vigil

that still remains to our senses,

let us not choose to avoid the experience

of the unpeopled world that lies behind the sun.

Consider the seeds from which you sprang:

You were made not to live like beasts,

but to seek virtue and understanding.”

With this little oration I made my shipmates

so eager for the voyage

that it would have hurt to hold them back.

And we swung our stern toward the morning

and turned our oars into wings for the wild flight.^2

Investing, too, is an adventure; the financial future is always an
uncharted world. With Graham as your guide, your lifelong investing
voyage should be as safe and confident as it is adventurous.

536 Commentary on Postscript

(^2) Dante Alighieri, The Inferno,Canto XXVI, lines 112–125, translated by
Jason Zweig.