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  • Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, isalmost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      Introduction to Men  At War.

  • As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      The Statue. Man and Superman, act 3.

  • I hate liberality. Nine times out of ten it is cowardiceand the tenth time, lack of principle.

    - HenryAddington, 1stViscount Sidmouth
    Attributed.

  • There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

    - Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
      Following the Equator, ch.36.

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