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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. -

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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