Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Ex…

Mark Twain
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. ✨ Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894)
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