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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton
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Orthodoxy, chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity; Explaining the paradox of courage, illustrated by sailors, mountaineers and soldiers risking life to preserve it.
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