"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."

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"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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