Wisdom earned

[leone]

Title: Wisdom earned
Author: leone
Rating: G
Character(s): Holmes, Watson
Summary: spacemutineer and methylviolet10b's 60 for 60 challenge: Week 10: The Adventure of The Copper Beeches
Warnings: none
Word Count: 60
Author's notes: Drawn from the following lines:

"Danger! What danger do you foresee?"

Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if we could define it," said he.

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Then, such confidence seemed the height of naive folly to a man with my experience. Yet years later, after he finally learned the brutal truth that danger foreseen is no less perilous, I found myself wishing we could recapture the spirit of reckless immortality from our younger days. Caution keeps a man alive, but boldness makes his life worth living.