You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing y…

Mark Twain
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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.71, Courier Corporation
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