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By Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
- Source
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, 1894 · Chapter XII epigraph, p. 155
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- Internet Archive (New York Public Library scan of the 1894 first edition, Hartford: American Publishing Co.)
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From Mark Twain's novel The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1894), where each chapter opens with a saying from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," a notebook kept by a character Twain wrote. The sayings are Twain's own writing.