“I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1747-09-21)
Tag: cowardice
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“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.” — W. E. B. Du Bois, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.” — Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, Part IX, Graham’s Magazine, December 1846