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

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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

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Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.