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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever bee...more

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?