Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. ✨ Umbert…

Umberto Eco
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. ✨ Umberto Eco (2014). The Name of the Rose, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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