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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. – H. L. Mencken

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To good and true love fear is forever affixed. – Francois Rabelais

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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. – Tertullian

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. – Aleister Crowley

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