[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a m…

Samuel Johnson
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[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1798). Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, p.126
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