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Topic·Courage vs. fear✕clear
Mark Twain1 quote
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. — Mark Twain · 1894
Nicias1 quote
Who has knowledge of what is to be dreaded and what is not—the man whom I call courageous? — Nicias · 380 BC
Susan Sontag1 quote
Courage is as contagious as fear. — Susan Sontag · 2003