Quote by Ambrose Bierce
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. – Ambrose Bierce

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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. – Thomas Jefferson

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny ones faith in man and God, even ones own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. – Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. – Proverb

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