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Charles Caleb Colton

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

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"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

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"There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair."

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"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger."

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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

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"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

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"The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair."

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"Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten."

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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

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