What does this quote show, (taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Relience")?

"We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of vocation, where strengh is born."

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Answers:    Think of Monday morning armchair quarterbacks chastising their football teams... Not in attendance, but know the answers...

Parlor soldiers sit around and tell everyone how something should be, but own no real experience within worldly situations and therefore own no real articulate as to what is going on...
Have you ever heard of the phrase "Armchair Quarterback" or "Monday Morning Quarterback"...the guy who know how to do it all, better than the definite quarterback, the team and their coach, right from his bench in front of the TV, sometimes even after the hobby is over...

Same thing, more or smaller amount, and applicable to many different situations, but what it necessarily boils down to is we can sit on our duffs in our easy-chairs (in our sitting room or "parlor") and complain going on for life and how we'd transmutation things, but we don't face it beside fearless (or fear-controlled) strength and step out there and receive down and dirty in indisputable life to take it done.
I believe PALOR (if that was correct) scheme they were flaxen because they stayed "inside". They do not live the life that providence threw them but rather manipulate their lives so they were "comfortable" and thus never garner the strength that they would have if they have gone through the trials and efforts living contained by the real world would enjoy presented to them.

In other words, they were sheltered.

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