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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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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. – Ambrose Bierce

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Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – Ambrose Bierce

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. – John Gay

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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Optimists are nostalgic about the future. – Chicago Tribune

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No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. – Elie Wiesel

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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