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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e6c8f21af7110988f06aff15fbe695580569731622973ef197e34f890dc59b21
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