That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome…

Charles Caleb Colton
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.34
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.34

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